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Strings

Discover the differences between Elixir strings and charlists. Learn when to use each type and how to manipulate text data effectively within Elixir's data type system.

We’ve already covered one of our suggestions, to prefer strings for user-defined text and atoms for naming concepts in code. In this section, we’re going to dive a little deeper. Elixir’s strings have slightly different characteristics from maps or lists, and we should know about those subtle differences. Let’s talk a bit about these concepts. Elixir ...